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of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to …This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … play in households' decision regarding mothers' participation in the labour force? We aim to summarise the main results …
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2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …
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In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries,...
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We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit … heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …
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effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from … payments in households where the annual income of the higher-earning exceeded their threshold encouraged mothers to start …, we find that some mothers who started working as part-time workers because of the cuts in CB used to work full …
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The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the …
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mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …
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mothers, the point estimates suggest large and statistically significant effects on employment and hours of work, and in … for fathers in two parent families, and only some limited and modest effects on mothers in two parent families. For single …
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